Judge Dismisses Copyright Claims Against AI Image Generators

A judge in California has largely dismissed copyright claims brought by three artists against AI image generators Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and DeviantArt. U.S. District Court Judge William H. Orrick failed to find evidence of direct infringements by the AI image companies and mostly granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss the case.

The three artists — Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz — immediately ran into problems as two of them — McKernan and Ortiz — did not register their works with the U.S. Copyright Office. This left cartoonist and illustrator Andersen — who copyrighted 16 of her works and provided evidence that Stable Diffusion had used her material to train its image generator by showing the results of a search of her name on www.haveibeentrained.com.

Read the full article here by Matt Growcoot on PetaPixel:
https://petapixel.com/2023/10/31/judge-dismisses-copyright-claims-against-ai-image-generators/